Penfield's homunculus and other grotesque creatures from the land of if

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Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 141-162

  Pogliano, Claudio ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

brain; history of neurophysiology; somatosensory functions; visual representation; Wilder G. Penfield

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CANADA; EPILEPSY; HISTOLOGY; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; ORGANIZATION; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

ACADEMIES AND INSTITUTES; BRAIN MAPPING; EPILEPSY; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEDICAL ILLUSTRATION; NEUROPHYSIOLOGY; NEUROSURGERY; QUEBEC; SOMATOSENSORY CORTEX;

EID: 84868261096     PISSN: 03947394     EISSN: 22105875     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/182539112X637192     Document Type: Article

References (29)

1. See Pietro Corsi (ed.), The Enchanted Loom, Chapters in the History of Neuroscience (New York-Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1991), pp. 226-228.
2. Jefferson Lewis, Something Hidden. A Biography of Wilder Penfield (Toronto-New York: Doubleday & Co Inc., 1981).
3. Wilder Penfield, No Man's Alone. A Neurosurgeon's Life, with a foreword by Lord Adrian (Boston-Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1977), pp. 35-36.
4. See Penfield, "La Escuela Española de Anatomía. Homenaje a Cajal y Del Rio Hortega de un alumno agradecido," in Césare Aguirre De Viani, Cajal y su Escuela (Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y Léon, Consejería de educación y cultura, 2002), pp. 165-179.
5. For a description of the new and highly novel building, see Lewis, Something Hidden (cit. note 2), pp. 148-150
6. See Wilder Penfield, Edwin Boldrey, "Somatic Motor and Sensory Representation in the Cerebral Cortex of Man Studied by Electrical Stimulation," Brain, 1937, 60: 389-443.
7. For an account of this highly controversial case, see Roberts Bartholow, "Experimental investigations into the functions of the human brain," American Journal of the Medical Sciences, 1874, 67: 305-313
8. and James P. Morgan, "The First Reported Case of Electrical Stimulation of the Human Brain," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, 1982, 37: 51-64.
9. Ezio Sciamanna, "Fenomeni prodotti dall'applicazione della corrente elettrica sulla dura madre e modificazione del polso cerebrale," Atti dell'Accademia nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze fisiche, matematiche e naturali, 1882, 13: 25-42.
10. Harvey Cushing, "A note upon the faradic stimulation of the postcentral gyrus in conscious patients," Brain, 1909, 32: 44-53.
11. See Wilder Penfield, "Epilepsy and Surgical Therapy," Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry, 1936, 36: 449-484.
12. Penfield, Boldrey, "Somatic Motor and Sensory Representation" (cit. note 7), p. 397.
13. Penfield, Boldrey, "Somatic Motor and Sensory Representation" (cit. note 7), p. 398.
14. Wilder Penfield, Theodore Rasmussen, The Cerebral Cortex of Man. A Clinical Study of Localization of Function (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1950).
15. Wilder Penfield, Herbert Jasper, Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy of the Human Brain (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954), caption to Fig. IV-1, p. 160.
16. Clinton N. Woolsey, "Organization of somatic sensory and motor areas of the cerebral cortex," in Biological and Biochemical Bases of Behavior, edited by Harry F. Harlow, Clinton N. Woolsey (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1958), pp. 63-81.
17. Francis Martin Walshe, "Some Reflections upon the Opening Phase of the Physiology of the Cerebral Cortex, 1850-1900," in The History and Philosophy of Knowledge of the Brain and Its Functions. An Anglo-American Symposium, July 15th-17th, 1957, edited by Frederick N.L. Poynter (Oxford: Blackwell, 1958), p. 232.
18. Norman Geschwind, "Specializations of the human brain," Scientific American, 1979, 241: 180-199.
19. Richard A. Griggs, "Who is Mrs. Cantlie and why are they doing those terrible things to her homunculi ?" Teaching of Psychology, 1988, 15: 105-106.
20. Penfield, Jasper, Epilepsy and the Functional Anatomy (cit. note 18), p. 162.
21. Geoffrey D. Schott, "Penfield's homunculus: a note on cerebral cartography," Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery, and Psychiatry, 1993, 56: 329-333 (cit. on pp. 330-331).
22. See Wilder Penfield, No Man Alone (Boston-Toronto: Little, Brown and Company, 1977)
23. Lewis, Something Hidden (cit. note 2).
24. See Wilder Penfield, No Other Gods (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1954)
25. Wilder Penfield, The Mystery of the Mind. A Critical Study of Consciousness and the Human Brain (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1975), p. ix.
26. Penfield, The Mystery of the Mind (cit. note 27), p. 49.
27. Geoffrey D. Schott, "Penfield's homunculus" (cit. note 24), p. 333.
28. C. Welker, "Receptive Fields of Barrels in the Somatosensory Neocortex of the Rat," Journal of Comparative Neurology, 1976, 166: 173-189
29. th, 2011). Figure 5 mentioned by Schott corresponds to Fig. 13 in this essay.